Pretty much my top 5 of each year, 1990-1999. It may have been black metal's finest hour, but for the most part I don't care for the genre - check some other lists for recoms there.

As if I needed to say that... ...on with the show... (looking for more words? scroll down to #44)

1.Anacrusis - Manic Impressions Demo

2.Anthrax - Persistence Of Time

3.Forbidden - Twisted Into Form

4.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

5.Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare

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My favourite progressive and experimental albums ever made of any genre or style.

1.Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle

2.Pink Floyd - The Wall

3.Opeth - Watershed

4.Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

5.Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money

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1.Equilibrium - Sagas

2.Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky

3.Kivimetsän Druidi - Shadowheart

4.Eluveitie - Slania

5.Forefather - Steadfast

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The only purpose of this list is to keep track of my 2012's heavy rotation playlist basically. List is in no particular order.

** Albums will be added from time to time

1.Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron

2.Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication

3.Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction

4.Verwüstung - I First Saw You On That Snowy Night And Couldn't Shake An Overwhelming Feeling Of Sadness

5.Horrendous - The Chills

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Smooth as a babe's bottom on a well oiled judas chair.

1.Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

2.Strapping Young Lad - Alien

3.Reverence - The Asthenic Ascension

4.Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse

5.Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill

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My favorite albums of 2010.

1.Spires - Spiral Of Ascension

2.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

3.Son Of Aurelius - The Farthest Reaches

4.Kvelertak - Kvelertak

5.Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt One

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1.Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird

2.Eluveitie - Helvetios

3.Acyl - Algebra

4.Hellsaw - Trist

5.Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

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1.Tristania - Beyond The Veil

2.Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance

3.Anathema - Judgement

4.Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn

5.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

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The ten albums which the general atmosphere is the heaviest and the most impressive i heard

1.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

2.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

3.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

4.Opeth - Morningrise

5.Pan.thy.monium - Khaooos & Kon-Fus-Ion

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8+ shit only

1.Grave - Endless Procession Of Souls

2.Process Of Guilt - Fæmin

3.Krallice - Years Past Matter

4.Thy Art Is Murder - Hate

5.Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction

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This is my work-in-progress rankings of the albums I've listened to in 2012. The order is likely to change throughout the year.

10 - Godly Album. Will likely listen to at least once a week for a decade.
9 - Fantastic Album. Will be a classic I remember even in senility.
8 - Great Album. Will recommend to friends.

1.Cannibal Corpse - Torture

2.Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

3.Spawn Of Possession - Incurso

4.Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

5.Bloodshot Dawn - Bloodshot Dawn

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1.Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees

2.Bleeding Through - The Great Fire

3.Woods Of Ypres - Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light

4.Avatar - Black Waltz

5.Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath

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1.Ensiferum - From Afar

2.Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!

3.Skyclad - In The... All Together

4.Crimfall - As The Path Unfolds...

5.The Agonist - Lullabies For The Dormant Mind

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